Direct Lobbying Transparency
| Overall Assessment | Comment | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Limited | Booking Holdings provides only limited transparency around its climate-related lobbying. It indicates that it has engaged on climate policy areas such as mastering “the twin transitions of digitization and decarbonization,” improving sustainability labels, and has referenced work on the EU’s prospective green-claims regulation, but it does not set out a fuller list of the specific bills, directives or rulemakings it has sought to influence. The company does explain a variety of ways it lobbies—saying it takes part in “parliamentary discussions, consultations, bilateral stakeholder meetings, events, meetings with industry associations, public policy forums, media briefings, conferences and conventions” and that it registers its activity on the EU Transparency Register—yet it names few concrete policymaking targets beyond a general reference to collaboration with the EU and “governments and regulatory authorities.” The public positions it seeks are somewhat clearer: it states a desire to help the accommodation sector reach net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050, to promote “digitization and decarbonization in the tourism sector,” and to expand the use of reliable sustainability labels so that “greenwashing does not take place.” While these aims show the direction of its advocacy, the company stops short of detailing the precise legislative or regulatory changes it presses for, leaving its climate lobbying disclosures only partially transparent overall. | 1 |